There is but a broken barrier between good and bad.
-Dead Hellfire, Mortem

"Are you not going to ask for help?" Reiji darkly whispered to Mortem who was, still, under him.

"Like f*cking HELL would I ask for HELP!! Damned sadistic bastard! I'll kill you the second that f*cking list expires! Bastard!"

"Oi, Reiji! How did you get him like that?" 'Ayato's next on the tort—killing list..'

"It's not fair... I want a taste too...," 'I won't be able to bring myself to hurt him if he looks like a kid... damnit.'

"... I... did not see a thing. Goodbye." 'Thank you, Angry Albino!'

"B*tch~Chan, were they like this when you entered?" 'Yui, I beg of you not to say a thing—'

"Yeah... Mo—uh, Dead~Kun, are you OK?" 'NO I AM NOT!! GET THIS DAMNED SADISTIC GLASSED VAMPIRE OFF OF ME! Wait, hold on mind, let me actually say tha—'

"Unexpectedly, B*tch~Chan knows his real name... Mo-something? I'll call you Momo~Kun from now on, alright Dead?" 'This damned Pervert-With-A-Hat-On.'

"Ayato's question; poison. Kanato, go do it after the poison wears off with two others. He won't be able to resist if three of us hold him down together. Now can you all get out?" Reiji fixed his glasses from falling and looked back down, licking off the blood from Mortem's neck, who, in turn, shifted his body uncomfortably. He currently wanted nothing more than for the poison to hurry up and incorporate already!

'Wait, no. Black dots, please stop. I don't want to go unconscious in such a humiliating way...' Mortem blacked out. Reiji could only regretfully stop and put him back in his room, leaving a note.

One and a half hours later

"...d...,"

'What noise is that..., why is everything so blurry and purple and peach... and brown...?'

"Dead...? Are you awake?"

'Someone's calling me... e-eh?! Kanato?'

"Mnn... what...do you... want...?" Mind still a little muddled, Mortem mumbled, trying to bring a hand up, only to find that he couldn't move them— 'Sh*t. The poison hasn't... oh yeah... it stopped incorporating the second I went unconscious... well, f*ck. This is gonna take a long while if they keep knocking me out from blood loss.'

"The poison... hasn't worn off yet...?" Kanato tilted his head, truly wondering why. Mortem wasn't in a mood to explain... but he had to buy time if what he thought about would actually happen.

"I am incorporating the poison into myself so I can be immune to these types of poison. Kanato, why are you here?"

"I... wanted t—," the vampire was cut off by the door suddenly slamming itself open. "...o...—,"

"Oi! Reiji already robbed Ore~Sama of Dead's first time, so Ore~Sama will definitely not settle for third!" Ayato yelled, suddenly appearing beside Mortem and biting down on the base of his neck, opposite of where Reiji had bit. Mortem suddenly widened his eyes and asked in a frantic manner, "Gh—! Where-where is it?!"

Kanato furrowed his brows before asking back. "Where is... what?"

"My knife! Was it left somewhere?" Mortem panicked, not seeming to care that Ayato was biting and licking at his neck. Just that his knife was somewhere he didn't know and not near him at all—'Right! Reiji's room! I need to take it back, because that one I brought just had to be—'

Mortem glared when Ayato moved where he was sucking his blood from and Kanato took his wrist and bit into them. They didn't actually hurt him, but, it was really uncomfortable and was slowly making him go lightheaded. 'Damn... it...'

"Eh? You two are unexpectedly ravishing Momo~Kun without me~?"

'Damnit! I need to get that knife before it goes on a rampage!' Mortem could only glare and try and convince them to stop before he blacks out again... unfortunately, they don't listen and he could only hope for the poison to f*cking hu—rry—up—!

He blacked out again.

Another hour later

Mortem woke up again, this time not as muddle-headed as before and hurriedly continued incorporating the poison. He felt a horrible gut feeling and could only hope that nothing bad happened... or will happen. The gut feeling towards the latter was much higher... now that he thought about it. 'Hopefully, none of the brothers will make me black out again. It shouldn't be more than five hours since I've last had contact with the thing, right? Maybe if I could telepathically contact it— wait. What the hell is that—oh. That Lazy Ass guy, Shuu? Why is he sleeping on my bed?'

"Shuu? What are you doing here?"

"You're too noisy...," the blonde cracked an eye open just slightly and scooped up Mortem, hugging him as if he was a giant teddy bear...

It was only at that time did Mortem notice that he was actually shorter than the eldest vampire there. He felt his cheeks heat up in embarrassment yet again and glared at the vampire.

Mortem was a proud person. And yet, here he was... being used as a teddy bear. Shuu nearly cracked a smile at seeing his embarrassed face. He had a feeling that this expression will be extremely rare to see anywhere in the future. "Oi, oi! Let go of me this instant!"

"Stop being so noisy...,"

"I refuse! Go sleep in your room and hug a teddy bear!"

"Shut up...," Mortem could only gasp out as he felt Shuu bite his neck where the previous wounds had already healed. "What is it with everyone wanting to bite me?!"

"Your blood smells different..., plus, we're curious of how it tastes considering we don't have any idea what you are."

"Is it even good?"

"It tastes... odd, plus, it's cold. There's something weird to it... weirdly... addicting...,"

Mortem suddenly felt like he's heard something about this before. 'Did mom say something about not letting them drink from me? Well, sh*t. Now, the question is whether she will get angry or not...'

Shuu forced himself to stop after a minute or two, trying to go back to sleep again. He actually cared about not harming this guy, not like the others. "Be quiet and let me sleep."

"Like hell would I let you sleep! Get the f*ck off me! I am not a damn teddy bear!"

'Someone needs to tame that foul mouth...' the vampire thought to himself, furrowing his brows and taking a glance at the glaring boy. Mortem however was despairing as the poison was still only halfway through and that he couldn't connect telepathically with his knife. 'If I don't get to it soon then it will actually go on a rampage and destroy this place and everyone in it! Damn it! I don't think this Lazy Ass would even bother about me talking anymore.'

"Hey! Don't fall asleep you dumbass! Wake the hell up and f*cking let go of me!"

"...mm...,"

"I said this already, get the hell off of me and—mmph?!" Mortem was rather dazed when a pair of lips were suddenly felt on his own and something shoving itself into his mouth. In fact, everything seemed to turn blank and he didn't even notice that whoever it was had pulled away.

It was only several minutes later that he blinked and asked himself what happened. '...did I just... lose my first kiss... to a vampire...?' At this, he blushed profusely, flustered for once and hid his face into the chest in front of him, hoping and praying to every god he knew that his ears weren't red too and that whoever the culprit is didn't notice him.

Unfortunately for him, the one who made all this happen, did notice him and grabbed onto his raven black hair, pulling it down to get his face to look up. Mortem glared at Shuu, about to curse but closed his mouth the instant he said the words, "Shut up or I'll kiss you again." The vampire stared at the blushing face in front of him and kissed him anyways before trying to sleep. Mortem could only blankly stare for several moments before forcefully calming himself down and checking on the poison's progress yet again. 'Damn my life.'

A quarter of an hour later

Mortem finally gathered the strength to lift his hands and feet and shoved Shuu off of the bed. "Ow...," however, he didn't stay around for any more words and practically flew all the way to Reiji's room and kicked open the door to find Glasses Guy, as he calls him, working on yet another liquid thingy. "Why are you here this time? Did you like me sucki—,"

"Shut it, damned Sadistic Glasses Leech." Mortem gritted his teeth and continued on reminding himself in his head to not do anything because his mom had told him not to torture or hurt or kill any of them... he just needed to wait until those words were no longer valid or his mom let him. Mortem looked around and found his much treasured blade still sitting in the same place, quickly taking it and holding it close. 'These guys truly will not know true horror until they're sucked into the abyss by this thing.'

Mortem then left the room under Reiji's enquiring gaze, going outside to see the sun shine bright... not. It was very cloudy, and the air was rather humid, showing signs for rain to come down. 'Anyways... now that the poison is done and not gone be used again as long as I'm here. I just need to find a source of the aura of death... there should a be a cemetery around here right? Wait, actually... let me just call mother first to explain the blood thing...'

Mortem took out his phone that was in his pocket the whole time and opened it, going to call the contact number of his mom.

"Hey, mom?"

"Why are you calling me?"

"What happens if a vampire drinks my blood?"

"...how many did just that?"

"Uh...five out of six—oh wait, another vampire entered the premises—five out of seven of the ones I'm living with?"

"...congratulations, you've now gotten a harem. Call me when you have babies."

"Wait, what?!"

Beep— beep— beep—!

"Mo—ther—!" Mortem yelled into the speaker of his phone. Slumping down when he realized that he had actually been hung up on and regretfully putting his phone back. "What the hell does she mean I got a harem? Ah, hold on, Shuu says that my blood is addicting, it can't be that they'll go insane over it or something? Why the hell am I even thinking about this anymore...? This is absolutely insane, I need to get my mind off of it."

Mortem suddenly thought of the scroll and stone the snake on the school roof had turned into and appeared back in his room, taking his bag and pulling those two things out and appearing within the white rose garden he had seen earlier.

He read the scroll with a rather optimistic start but his gaze soon got darker and darker until he might as well be shooting laser beams from his eyes. The stone had stuck into him in the middle of him reading and had also disappeared. What was written on the paper, you ask?

"Crimson told me you were living somewhere else and would be relatively safe for a while. The stone will seal your strength to the borders of human strength, redo the basics and make your foundation more solid."

Mortem clenched the paper until it ripped apart, feeling the helplessness towards the vampires already. 'Life... why do you hate me so much...? Why...? Why me...?'

The paper reformed and turned into a relatively small, black and red winged lizard, flying off as if there was no despairing person there.

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